Suntanned toes Layout 13

One last layout for you before a few days off to celebrate Easter!

This layout was for two challenges, the April Bring in the Sun challenge at Scrap Our Stash, and the Counterfeit Kit Challenge.

Everything I used on this layout was from my conterfeit kit. One thing that I was worried about was that all my layouts from my kit would look too similar for my liking. But with all the paper that I added, it was easy to leave some colors out of my last layout to make them look different enough.

For the Scrap Our Stash challenge, we had to use something with sun. I have very few pictures of me at the beach, but I had this one of my feet in the sand. I couldn't help but to think of the start of Kenny Chesney's song, When The Sun Goes Down.

Suntanned toes, tickling the sand.
cold drink chillin' in my right hand.....

Perfect for my picture!

I decided to layer lots of embellies from my kit. And the title is cut from the Don Juan Cricut cartridge.

I hope you have a wonderful Easter! I will see you next week! Happy crafting

Goodbye Glasses Layout 12-Counterfeit Kit Challenge

This is one of the layouts from my counterfeit kit, about my Lasik. My hubby took the picture of me with the creepy looking eye sheilds that I had to wear the first few night. I didn't think about doing a layout until I saw his picture. I had a long list of doctor's orders and lots of eye drops too. And of course, I couldn't forget a picture of my calendar!!

Most of this was from my kit, but I added a couple of scraps of Echo Park paper. The black glitter stickers are from Basic Grey and the transparency is from Colorbok.

I've got one more layout finished, so look for that in a couple of days! Happy crafting!

Card and gift tag-Counterfeit kit challenge

I have enjoyed getting to work with my counterfeit kit! I made a layout (you will have to wait to see that one!) and this card along with a gift tag. My friends baby shower was this past weekend, so I decided to use the kit to make her a card, burp cloths, and a tag.

Check back in a few days to see some more projects with my counterfeit kit! Happy crafting!

Baseball Opening Day Goodie Bags

Happy Monday everyone!

These are the goodie bags that I made for my son's baseball team on opening day. I wish I could say that this was my idea, but I saw Shea's bag on the Cricut Messageboard. (She added a wrapped bar of Fels Naptha soap to wash pants in, but I left that out.) The baseballs are cut at 4 inches from the Baseball Solutions cart. All the names were cut from Street Sign. I put all the baseball essentials in the bag too, sunflower seeds, bubble gum, and Gatorade. The Coach asked the boys to save the tags so they could use them for batting order. I didn't expect that otherwise I would have made them a little stronger, or had them laminated. I thought that something special would be nice to celebrate opening day. Happy crafting!

Counterfeit Kit Challenge-1

I have been lurking around the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog for the last couple of months. I wanted to play along, but just never did. When I saw the inspiration kit from Front Porch Kits, I knew that I wanted to play along this month !! Take a look at these wonderful colors and embellies!!



You can check out the website atFrontporchkits.com

TheCounterfeit Kit Challenge Blog , challenges you to put a kit together from your stash and see what you can come up with! Here is my first Counterfeit Kit:







Here are a few of the things that made it into my kit:

Heidi Swapp, DCWV, BoBunny paper
American Crafts and Ribbon Trends ribbon, pom-pom and lace trims, flower trim
Acrylic birds
Prima and PaperStudio flowers
Black, teal, and yellow yarn
fabric swatches
Pink Paislee and Maya Road rubons
chipboard alphas, flowers, and tree
Maya Road mega bottlecaps, and a PaperStudio black bottlecap
Buttons by BoBunny, American Crafts,
Brads by PaperStudio
Flower center brads by PaperStudio
Black, cream, white, yellow, teal, and kraft cardstock

I also plan to use my Cricut, Glimmer Mist, Stickles, and glitter.

So now that I have this massive kit all pulled together, I better get started doing something with it! The challenge runs all month and the goal is to make as many projects as you can with your kit! I can't wait! Happy crafting!

My favorite picture~Remember to back up your photos!!

Here is one of my favorite photos of last month. I got this shot while the lights were out and everyone was singing happy birthday to them. I love that you can only see his face and cake.

Don't forget to back up your photos!

Happy crafting!

Create Banner

When I found out about the March Dust It Off Challenge at Scrap Our Stash, my first thought was to use my Fasenator, but I thought that I had given it away long ago. So I was going through my "old stuff" box to see see what I could use, and guess what? I found my Fasenator! Now what was I going to do with it?


I was making a banner as a gift in a swap. So I used the Fasenator as the way to attach the banner together. I had some of the decorative staples and just slid the ribbon under each side and tied knots. I learned alot about my Fasenator, and it has since earned it's spot back on my tool shelf! I'm not so sure it won't get dusty again though!


I used my Cricut Storybook cartridge for the letters and used my Gypsy to alter some of the shapes for the letter backings. Both the hot pink ribbon and the light pink scalloped oval were distressed with my mini mister filled with water and then scrunched up. I inked around the edges with Close to My Heart Bubblegum stamp pad.


If you would like to take the March Challenge. See all the details HERE!

Charm packaging

You may remember my vintage and rock princess chunky charms a couple of weeks ago. Well, they are packaged up and heading to the swap hostess. One of the requirements of the swap, was to make a cute presentation of the charms. Pretty packaging. I wasn't sure how to do that, but this is what I came up with.




My Rock Princess charms are on some DCWV Rockstar paper that I have had forever and wasn't sure what to do with. It has hot pink foil lips on it!. I added a skull from Indie Art. I used an Inkadinkadoo stamp and stapled it over the charm to help hold it in place. To finish it, I added some black, shimmery ribbon.





The vintage charms are on paper by Karen Foster. I hand cut paper flowers out of some old book pages and added a Prima flower to the top of it. The brads were gold, but I scratched them up with some sandpaper and used brown Staz-On ink to make them fit in with the vintage theme. Brown velvet ribbon is stapled across the charm.

I had just as much fun making the packaging, as I did the charms. I hope you will try some too! Happy crafting!